It is not generally remembered, if known, by the descendants of the Pilgrims, that when their forefathers were spending their firs...t memorable winter in the New World, they had for neighbors a colony of French no further off than Port Royal (Annapolis, Nova Scotia) ... where, in spite of many vicissitudes, they had been for fifteen years.... Though these founders of Acadie endured no less than the Pilgrims, and about the same proportion of them ... died the first winter at St. Croix, 1604-1605, sixteen years earlier, no orator, to my knowledge, has ever celebrated their enterprise ... while the trials which their successors and descendants endured at the hands of the English have furnished a theme for both the historian and poet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The voluptuous Indian, with every desire supplied, whom Providence has bountifully provided with all the sources of pure and natur...al enjoyment, and from whom are removed so many of the ills and pains of life--what has he to desire at the hands of Civilization? She may "cultivate his mind,"Mmay "elevate his thoughts,"Mthese I believe are the established phrases--but will he be the happier? Let the once smiling and populous Hawaiian islands, with their now diseased, starving, and dying natives, answer the question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy nig...ht for me that follow'd, And else when I carous'd, or when my plans were accomplish'd, still I was not happy, But the day when I rose at dawn from the bed of perfect health, refresh'd, singing, inhaling the ripe breath of autumn,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The more one knows of our life the more one must denounce it, lest it be suspected that one has a personal motive in defending it.... When other women speak of us you must assume an attitude of scorn, not only to protect yourself from suspicion, but that you may also feel it for yourself and have no temptation to return. When you think of us do not remember any small kindness that we may have shown you or that we show to one another. Remember only the things that have shocked you and outraged your traditions and your sense of decency. Remember your sufferings at the hands of beasts who are miscalled men. If you keep these things in view you will never again fall into temptation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sadism is the necessary outcome of the belief that one sex is passive and suffers sex at the hands of another. If we are to escape... any of the hideous effects of this mythology, effects which include war and capital punishment, we must regain the power of the cunt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One could say about this barn, what could hardly be said of either the church or the castle, akin to it in age and style, that the... purpose which had dictated its original erection was the same with that to which it was still applied. Unlike and superior to either of those two typical remnants of mediaevalism, the old barn embodied practices which had suffered no mutilation at the hands of time. Here at least the spirit of the ancient builders was at one with the spirit of the modern beholder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hand...s of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented th...e majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »